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Docomomo UK: You are here- a history of the estate map signboard
A talk by Julian Williams RIBA
Tuesday, September 16 · 7 – 9pm
Take a walk in any city or town in the UK and you’re likely to come across a map, not on a phone or screen, but on a metal or timber signboard. ‘You are here’, it might say, laying out a territory in a familiar, yet somewhat unreadable graphic style of coloured lines and blocks. A logo in the corner will remind you of its owner- the local authority or perhaps another social housing provider. Follow the map and discover an estate- a neighbourhood whose name is lost to the world of the digital map, and where concepts of belonging extend beyond definitions of legal property.
This talk is about housing estates’ intertwined relationship with the map, tracing a history from the celebrated landed estate maps and the municipalisation of estate land for social housing in the late nineteenth century to the creation of estates as idealised landscapes of betterment post WWII.
Julian Williams RIBA
Director of Teaching, Learning and Quality, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster
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Tickets on the door cost £15